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Berlin today closed it's sole vaccination center. Allegedly because of a lack of interest by the target audience. So we now reserve all doses, not just the second one. Total organizational fubar.

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That's hard to believe in multi million city there was not enough people to fill on one center. Maybe there was something other preventing people from going there? Do you have source?

I found it hard to believe as well, but found [1]. Not living there at this time, I lack a sense of current sentiment, but it's my understanding that so far only medical personal is being vaccinated. Allegedly there was a lack of interest of being vaccinated right now (it's Christmas season and many are on holiday there I think). That'll change in a few days.

[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/zu-wenig-rueckmeldung-zu-...

Multiple sources in German/Berlin Media. Take for instance this piece:

https://m.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/zu-wenig-rueckmeldung-zu-we...

As far as I was able to connect the pieces the organization was a total disaster. Mobile teams going into nursing homes do not vaccinate the people working there. These people should have come to the center, but could not because the were working at that time. Other elderly people (not living in nursing homes) should have come to the center but did not receive the invitation in time.

This kind of utter incompetence is, sadly, quite typical in Berlin.

People have been forced to endure lockdown and masks, but they have a choice about vaccines. We should just vaccinate the elderly and anyone else who wants it and get back to 100% normal life - ditch the mask rules and social distancing.

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